His
Offensive Cyber Effects Operations (OCEO) claimed to "offer
unique and unconventional capabilities to advance US national
objectives around the world with little or no warning to the
adversary or target and with potential effects ranging from subtle to
severely damaging."

Washington
"identif(ies) potential targets of national importance where
OCEO can offer a favorable balance of effectiveness and risk as
compared with other instruments of national power."

Malware
"can remain active for years without" detection. "
'Sleeper cells' can be controlled remotely and be turned on and off
at will."

Implants
are digital sleeper cells. A "push of a button" activates
them. NSA has been conducting these type operations since the late
1990s.

Dutch
intelligence services AIVD and MIVD "displayed interest in
hacking." In early 2013, a Joint Cyber Unit (JSCU) was created.

It's
an inter-agency operation. It uses experts with a range of IT skills.
It doesn't go as far as NSA. Dutch law prohibits it. For how long
remains to be seen.

Last
August, the Washington
Post
headlined "The NSA has its own team of elite hackers." It
discussed TAO operations.

It
may "have had something to do with (developing) Stuxnet and
Flame malware program." Washington and Israel were involved.

In
spring 2010, Iranian intelligence discovered Stuxnet malware
contamination. It infected its Bushehr nuclear facility. At the time,
operations were halted indefinitely.

Israel
was blamed. So was Washington. Had the facility gone online infected,
Iran's entire electrical power grid could have been shut down.

Flame
is a more destructive virus. Internet security experts say it's 20
times more harmful than Stuxnet. Iran's military-industrial complex
is targeted.

So
is its nuclear program. Maximum disruption is intended. Whether plans
to do so continue remains to be seen. Iran is alerted to the
possibility.

Leaksource
calls itself the "#1 source for leaks around the world."
Last August, it headlined "Codename GENIE: NSA to Control 85,000
'Implants' in Strategically Chosen Machines Around the World by Year
End," saying:

Doing
so represents "the leading edge of a clandestine campaign that
embraces the Internet as a theater of spying, sabotage and war."

Snowden
leaked information revealed it. GENIE involves using computer
specialists. They break into foreign networks. They do so to "put
(them) under surreptitious US control."

"Budget
documents say the $652 million project has placed 'covert implants,'
sophisticated malware transmitted from far away, in computers,
routers and firewalls on tens of thousands of machines every year,
with plans to expand those numbers into the millions," said
Leaksource.

GENIE's
next phase involves an automated online system code-named "TURBINE."
It's able to potentially manage "millions of implants."

It
elevates intelligence gathering to a higher level. It lets it engage
in widespread "active attack(s)."